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  From: Benjamin Close <linux@senet.com.au>
  To  : romana <tpnet@ozemail.com.au>
  Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 16:30:15 +0930 (CST)

Re: floppy and cdrom problems

On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, romana wrote:

> romana wrote:
> > hi.. i have a small problem trying to mount my cdrom. it works for
> > sound, but when i try to mount it to read a data disk, i get the
> > message:
> > /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device.
> > /dev/cdrom has a symlink to /dev/hdc
> 
> and just to confuse things, it turns out that dmesg indicates that
> /dev/hdd is actually the cdrom, but the symlink is in there fro the cdrom
> to be hdc??
> how did that link get there, and can i alter that somehow?
> at least i can now do a mount /dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom

That is your problem, you are trying to mount the Secondary Primary Ide
device instead of the secondary slave. Ie what you are trying to mount
most likely doesn't exist. 

To fix it do:
cd /dev
ln -sf hdd cdrom

Should fix all your problems.

Cheers,
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* Benjamin Close
* Benjsc@senet.com.au
* Web Page: http://users.senet.com.au/~benjsc

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